[mythtv-users] What Haupage PVR-x50 to get?

[Martijn Morriën]

I have a Terratec Cinergy 400 SAA7134 tuner card working with MythTv. I had
a lot of issues getting it to work properly. First I had problems with
channel tuning, but once you know how to fill them (easiest way is to set
them via mythweb in Hz) I ran into sound issues. When using the saa7134
internal sound decoder I got a lot of static when switching channels, which
could cause speaker damage, so I went for the external sound cable but now I
don't have very good sound quality and it is more difficult to set up
(default sound card values needed e.g.).

The things I'm missing is: the saa7134 uses software encoding, so recording
and viewing at the same time doesn't work very well. And I can't record two
shows at a time. Which occured more during the past half year than I would
expect.

Tvtime is very nice to test the saa7134 card, mainly because automatic
channel scanning works

I'm thinking about getting a PVR 500 with 2 tuners.

Martijn (also from the Netherlands)

On 5/2/06, NINjak <ninjak at ss-nl.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I need some help to fix things or some info to get the right Haupage card.
>
> I was building and installing my first mythTV setup and I used an Pinnacle
> PCTV (saa7134 chipset) tv card. The Pinnacle card refused to work but
> after a while, finaly it did. Well "worked" is a big word because I only
> saw one channel (BBC) but I was not able to zap through the other(?)
> channels. To get the channels tuned is kinda hard or the card is/was not
> working correctly. Before I got the BBC channel (with mythTV) I try'd some
> other settings with tvtime but, at that time, that did not help me much
> (did lot's of lsmod, rmmod and modprobe to get/find the right card
> settings).
>
> To test some things differently I took an other HD and installed w*nd*ws
> on that setup to see if the card/drivers where working correctly (maybe
> the pinnacle card got some problems with linux). In w*nd*ws the card is
> reporting an (irq) error and did not (yet) work at all while with mythTV I
> could see at least 1 channel ;) I will try some other things to solve the
> IRQ problem and maybe then the card will respond in linux better than just
> that one BBC channel.
>
> - Are there people on this list got/had the same problems with the
> Pinnacle or other brand, with the SAA7134 chipset, TV-card ?
> - Can it be fixed ?
> - If I take an Haupage PVR-x50 card, and leave the SAA7134 card for what
> it is, wich one should I get ? and does the MCE versions work correctly
> with linux ?
>
> I was thinking to get an Haugpage PVR-150 (with remote, so no MCE version)
> but I could not see if that's the best choice. I wont be needing a second
> one or a PVR-500 because when all works well I will also be using a DVB-S
> in the near future. If someone got some nice info what DVB-S to get i
> would be very happy.
>
> To give you some extra info:
> I live in the Netherlands (europe), was using the latest kernel (kernel,
> did see the tv-card correctly), AMD XP2600+, VIA KT400a chipset, 512Mb,
> Nvidia GF4 and a SB Live (onboard, sounds bad).
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Cya,
>
> NINjak
>
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